So this weekend I decided to reread Kingdom Come. I've had it a few years, and of course I read it back when I got it; I didn't care all that much for it. I'm not really a fan of "imaginary" stories, which is what it seemed to be at the time. (Although I did used to read Marvel's What If? series when I was younger, these days that sort of thing holds no interest for me.) I went to Wikipedia to see what they had to say about Elseworlds stories, and according to them, Elseworlds meant stories that took place out of canon. To me, that says imaginary.
Now, however--after having read Countdown and some of its offshoots that establish at least some of the Elseworlds stories as having taken place in an alternate universe (including, I must assume from recent issues of Justice Society, the Kingdowm Come world)--I find it more interesting.
And I don't know why that makes a difference to me. It shouldn't. But it does.
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